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Alvent Yulianto Chandra/Hendra Aprida Gunawan

Jawa Pos officially announces the birth of this new partnership, which will be under the charge of Sigit Pamungkas. We shall see how this new doubles pair fare hopefully in early January, with the beginning of the new season in the Proton Malaysia and Yonex Korea Super Series 2009.

The notational ranking for the pair should be in the top 20, which means they will be spared of qualifying for the main draw, but, if they are unlucky, they will face a top pair immediately in the first round. I will set them QF targets for both tourneys.

This is not new double pair, old pair who come back after splitted a looong time ago.

In early the pair combination was
Alvent/Hendra A.G.
Luluk/Imam Sodikin

Actually Alvent/Hendra's performances wasn't bad, never lost in early round through to SF or QF.

Luluk/Imam didn't break any good result yet and PBSI wanted best combination of them.
After Luluk break 1st title (with Sigit Budiarto), Luluk was paired with Alvent. Surprisely they had very good result also ever as world#1.

This pair has performed way beyond my expectation in the Malaysia Super Series, with a runner-up position and pushing the current in-form pair Jung Jae Sung/Lee Yong Dae to rubber-set.

Alvent/AG should be able to reach R16 of Korea SS, where they will meet Choong Tan Fook/Lee Wan Wah. Winning that match, they should be meeting Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan for a rematch in the QF. If they do triumph again, Mathias Boe/Carsten Mogensen will likely be their opponent for a place in another Final.

This pair has performed way beyond my expectation in the Malaysia Super Series, with a runner-up position and pushing the current in-form pair Jung Jae Sung/Lee Yong Dae to rubber-set.

I was also astonished with their performance shown in the 1st game. But soon I came to know that they were just tired out by a number of jump smashes and fast movement to cope with the never-ending defense from KOR. From 2nd set, once the KOR team started to do some net plays not giving them highs, they just collapsed giving up the game. IMO, both of them are very tall in very good shape and have good attacking skills but still have weakness in control plays. Once the KOR duo came to learn their strength/weakness they became to be very easy opponent. But still they showed great performance to win over MK/HS.

ALVENT/HENDRA did not train much prior to this tournament. The past 2 months the PBSI's training center is almost non existent, due to the new leader was not elected yet. So a runner up finish is really very good.

Another fact is that for MAS SS and KOR SS, they are paying for their own expenses with a 'very' little last minute contribution from YONEX. Thats why they are still wearing YONEX.

It should be interesting to follow them..

..yeah, a pretty surprising and nice start to their 2009 campaign.
However, their success could be partly attributed to their new partnership, which most if not all of the other pairs haven't seen.
If i remember, Luluk and Alvent started out like gangbusters when they first started their partnership campaign (went as high as top 3 or 5 ranking in MD). But time sure showed their real identity.
IF this new pair can stay consistent in their finishing (around QF or SF round) of tourneys, at least for 3/4 of the yr or the whole yr, they could definitely be a force to be reckoned with.

..yeah, a pretty surprising and nice start to their 2009 campaign.
However, their success could be partly attributed to their new partnership, which most if not all of the other pairs haven't seen.
If i remember, Luluk and Alvent started out like gangbusters when they first started their partnership campaign (went as high as top 3 or 5 ranking in MD). But time sure showed their real identity.
IF this new pair can stay consistent in their finishing (around QF or SF round) of tourneys, at least for 3/4 of the yr or the whole yr, they could definitely be a force to be reckoned with.

Well, its no easy task for anyone pairing up with Luluk.
I do think Hendra/Alvent is stronger than Joko/Rendra, but whether they're better than Rian/Yoke or Bona/Ahsan....I'm witholding judgement on that.

2009 should be an interesting year for INA's MD. If everything progressing smoothly, MK/HS should have a couple of INA's MD accompanying them in the Top 10.